Benefits youth through programs of character development and values-based leadership training.

Greetings!

Welcome to the new version of our council E-news for 2017. This is a companion communication piece to our newly launched website www.HoosierTrailsBSA.org. There are a lot of exciting things happening in Scouting and this resource will help keep you in the loop and prepare you for some awesome Scouting adventure!

Join Scouts Recruitment Training

The Camping with Cub Scouts program is a special campaign designed to make your recruitment efforts as exciting as a Cub Scout’s first night under a blanket of a million stars. With a focus on the fun, learning and adventure of the great outdoors that is at the core of Scouting, this program invites families in your community to experience the adventures that only Scouting can offer. Our fall recruitment campaign will focus on a community based marketing strategy and on having a successful join night at every elementary school. Join Scouts Recruitment Training is designed to help all Scouting units to effectively market to and recruit new Scouts. Tons of resources and know-how are shared and you don't want to miss it. There are several up-coming opportunities:

National Get Outdoors Day is annual event to encourage healthy active outdoor fun. June 9th will be the day that STEM activities will be offered for the entire family at West Gate Academy, more information is available via the button below. June 10th is the 5K Run to honor our former Council President, Chuck LaSota. Join the fun!

Wood Badge is an exciting, action-packed program designed for councils to provide adult members with leadership skills and experience they can use in their Scouting positions and in other situations demanding leadership of self and others.

The Wood Badge course centers upon the concepts of servant leadership and leaving a legacy. The key elements are then taught with a clear focus on “how to.” The skills come alive during the week as the patrol completes a patrol project based upon what they have learned.

National Youth Leadership Training

The National Youth Leadership Training Course focuses on team-building, making ethical decisions, leading others, communicating, and planning. This is accomplished by the use of presentations, games, simulations, and other activities that reinforce the content of the course. It would not be unfair to say that the Scouts also have some fun along the way.

A convenient way for prospective Scouting families to sign up to be in your unit. How is the online application accessed? Families looking for a Scouting home can find your unit on the BeAScout website, send your unit an inquiry for more information or apply directly if your unit enables this feature. Your unit can also pass out a direct link to the unit’s online application by using a URL or QR code provided in the Online Registration Invitation Manager tool in My.Scouting. How does the unit accept new applicant in this system? When a family fills out an online application, it is routed to the unit’s Application Manager dashboard. From there, any member of the unit Key 3 – the top unit leader, the committee chair, or the chartered organization representative - can approve a youth application. Chartered organization representatives can also approve adult applications. All fields on the paper application are in the digital application. Approval is just a press of the button by one of the Key 3, and if the new member paid by credit card, their information goes directly to your unit roster. If paid by cash or check, they will bring their online receipt and money to the unit and the unit will turn the receipt and money to the council in just like you do with paper applications today. Once the council has marked the member as paid they will show in your unit roster.

Boy Scout Summer Camp

Summer Camp is right around the corner and awesome program additions are being finalized. A great camp staff is being developed and we are preparing for a tremendous camping season.